An exhibition by Simon Grennan, Katie Lee, and Ilona Jetmar.
6 Dec - 9 Jan
When a computer performs an algorithmic operation, that is one thing; when living human subjects perform an algorithmic operation that is quite another.
Algorithms are simply a set of non-ambiguous rules for completing a task. While we closely associate them with computer coding their origins long predate the digital age. And while there is also a long history of “rule based” art, such practices are usually contained within the realm of pure abstraction.
In this drawing-based project, we investigate algorithmic ideas in the real world, via the much messier interplay between corporeal participants, drawing, physical spaces, and material objects.
The project also contemplates algorithmic processes and systems as a cultural phenomenon, one that exerts an increasingly pervasive influence on all our lives. We aim to use and mis-use algorithms in what will be, for the artists, a new, uncertain, and unfolding experiment in the gallery, one that encourages co-creation, collaboration, creative play, and informal exchange between artist-researchers and the public.
